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c/maintenancephase·posted 11 months ago by u/ilias_nakamura

[Vendor] QST order #20 — Denmark, 27 days, no drama, receipts inside

Discussion Clean Column ×7 Receipts ×3

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 1.7mg to 0.25mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 14 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have injection-site soreness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 5 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/taper_off_tabithaMOD276 points·11 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/ilias_nakamuraOP142 points·11 months ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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u/santiago_ndiaye124 points·11 months ago

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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u/lina_novak0 points·11 months ago

What dose are you on?

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u/laila_almeida126 points·11 months ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/erez_baptista58 points·11 months ago·edited

Yeah, maintenance is the boring part and the important part.

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u/paloma_stanescu76 points·11 months ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/ferritin_low35 points·11 months ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 29 weeks to accept.

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance28 points·11 months ago·edited

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 21 is not maintenance

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u/sanne_delgado-10 points·11 months ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 21 is not maintenance

Disagree on that part. 93.7% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/ilias_nakamuraOP1 point·11 months ago

What dose are you on?

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u/zeynep_mbeki63 points·11 months ago

Crossposting this to c/hplc because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/sanne_delgado35 points·11 months ago

weight moves within 8kg and that is normal

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance10 points·11 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/ferritin_low5 points·11 months ago

lowest effective dose is lowest effective dose, find it or stay higher

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u/kasper_cabrera18 points·11 months ago

This is correct. Weight variance is normal at maintenance.

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u/nadia_nascimento15 points·11 months ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/priya_weiss20 points·11 months ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/anders_osei14 points·11 months ago

nobody posts about this part and it is the longest part

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u/blunt_coldbox_notes5 points·11 months ago

How long at maintenance?

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u/cesar_oyelaran7 points·11 months ago

lowest effective dose is dose stretching, find it or stay higher

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u/dilara_nyberg3 points·11 months ago

Not to be pedantic but lowest effective dose and long term are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/neha_falk0 points·11 months ago

Weight variance within what range?

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u/nhs_waitlist_nUK2 points·11 months ago

weight moves within 21kg and that is normal

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u/kenji_vasquez5 points·11 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 97.2, not 97.4. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/oskar_malinowski4 points·11 months ago

state how long you have been at maintenance, week 9 is not maintenance

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u/cold_chromatogram_only1 point·11 months ago

Did you stretch the dose interval?

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The part nobody posts about: what happens at goal weight. Finding a lowest effective dose, dose-interval stretching, regain risk data, muscle retention, the psychology of not having a number to chase, and staying on indefinitely versus tapering.

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